Groan
נְאָקָהStrong’s H5009neaqah (ne-a-qah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Neaqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “groaning their”, “groaning of” and “from groaning their”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.”
Meaning
- Groan, groaning
How it's translated
- groaning their 1
- groaning of 1
- from groaning their 1
- groans of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Judges 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 6:5And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
- Judges 2:18And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
- Ezekiel 30:24And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
Hebrew dictionary
נְאָקָה neaqah · groan
groan, groaning
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “groan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GROAN, verb intransitive
[Latin grunnio; Heb. to cry out, to groan; Latin rana, a frog.]
- To breathe with a deep murmuring sound; to utter a mournful voice, as in pain or sorrow.“For we that are in this tabernacle, do groan being burdened” 2 Corinthians 5:4
- To sigh; to be oppressed or afflicted; or to complain of oppression.
All definitions and other forms of “groan”
GROAN, noun
A deep mournful sound, uttered in pain, sorrow or anguish.
- Any low, rumbling sound; as the groans of roaring wind.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.